Lady s hat-fastener



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`J. J. OONNOR.

LADYS -HAT FASTBNBR.

No. 501,295'. Patented July 1 1, 1893.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN J. OCONNOR, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

LADYS HAT-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 501,295, dated July 11, 1893.

Application led February 9, 1893. Serial No. 461.563. (N o model.) I

To afZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN J. OCONNOR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ladies Hat-Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a`full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide a fastener for ladies hats that will secure the hat firmly in place without the use of hat pins, the fastener being so constructed that it may be readily attached to any hat without injury thereto and may be transferred from one hat to another in a moments time, it being simply necessary to secure the fastener in place by taking a few stitches.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification Figure l is a view showing a hat in section and illustrating the mode of use of my novel fastener. Fig. 2 is a section of a hat showing two fasteners in place within it, and Fig. 3 is a view on an enlarged scale of a fastener detached.

My novel fastener consists essentially of a plate l having extending therefrom curved prongs or teeth 2, and preferably having holes 3 to permit the attachment of the plate to the hat by means of stitches.

The fastener is made of spring metal to permit of the prongs or teeth being sprung downward as much as may be required in attaching or removing the hat. The special curvature of the prongs relatively to the plate is of course not of the essence of my invention.

The fasteners in practice are made of metal of a quality that will permit the position of the prongs relatively to the plate to be changed if necessary without impairin g the resiliency of the prongs.

secured in place and upon the mode in which ends in the hair and then presses the hat down in place upon the head. The prongs will pass under the hair and will assume approximately their normal position. They will however hold the hat irmlyin place and prevent it from moving in the slightest, thus wholly dispensing with the use of hat pins. In removingthe hat it is simply necessary for the user to lift'irst one side of the hat drawing the prongs out from .that side and then, if two fasteners are used, to lift the other side withdrawing theprongs from that. I'tind in practice that a hat may be placed upon the head and removed therefrom with but slight disarrangement of the hair, very much less in fact than is caused by passing hat pins through a coil of hair at the back of the head, and that a hat may be held in place kby my novel fasteners without the slightest inconvenience to the wearer.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- I,

In combination, with a hat, the fastener consisting of the base plate andspring prongs formed in one piece, the said base plate being attached to the sides of the hat, and extending vertically thereof and the prongs being curved downwardly from the lower end ofthe base plate and then upwardly at the free ends, the concaved side of the fastener being uppermost, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOI-IN J. OCONNOR.`

Witnesses:

A. M. WoosTER, y PEARL M. REYNOLDS. 

